Weblogs

As you probably recall, I recently moved this blog from Typepad to Wordpress. It was an easy process, and one that was well worth it. But, of course, spammers of all stripes (email spammers, comment spammers, weblog spammers) are like mold growing on a piece of bread that's been out for a few days. In order to avoid having to cough up $150 for another year, and to move to an entirely free and open source platform that I control, I cancelled my typepad account.

I was doing some searching for blog posts relating to women and technology, and I came across Basic Blogging for Women. It's actually run by someone I know of in the nonprofit technology field - Britt Bravo. It's a great place to start, if you're thinking about starting a blog.

Well, sorry to say, the comment spam has gotten to be too much, so I'm moderating comments. Sorry for the minor inconvenience to folks (not that too many people comment on my blog anyway.)

Well, life changes, things change, so, well, my blogs will change. I've had three blogs since I've been blogging, this main blog, which I've basically had for three years, the technology desk, which I had for about 3 months, which I killed because I realized I couldn't maintain it in seminary, and my ministry blog (The Contemplative and the Mystic), which has been going for more than a year.

Here's this weeks Progressive Faith Blog Carnival!

Well, when I change a name, I really change a name!

Please change your bookmarks for this blog to: http://www.metacentricities.com

And the new feed is: http://www.metacentricities.com/index.rdf

The old URL and feed will work fine, but it would be great to use the new one. :-)

Update: The old feed actually doesn't work, it turns out. Sorry for the inconvenience!

 

 

Well, working with someone who had a visit by the naming fairy sure did help. The new title of the blog is meant to reflect both the varied kinds of things that I write about here, as well as the fact that I am very interested in the intersections of things, where things meet. And, it's a cool word. Back to our regular programming...

I've finally done it. In a bit over a year, I've had more than 10,000 page views (actually, it now stands at 10,172.) Somehow, that feels like somewhat of a milestone. I still enjoy writing the blog, and still feel gratified when I hear that someone reads it, and likes what I write, so I'll hope for another 10,000 this coming year.

I wanted to both wrap up my own feelings about the Blog Con, and also link to some other blogs that have summarized their experiences. It was a really great weekend. It was nice meeting so many people I'd emailed, phoned, or just read their blogs. It was nice to put faces and three-dimensional personalities to the blogs I've been reading, some over the course of more than a year.

Chris Tessone (Even the Devils Believe,) Mata H (Time's Fool,) Bruce Prescott (Mainstream Baptist) and I put together and led a Sunday Christian worship service for the blog con. The order of service is available in PDF format, and I've just posted the sermon on my Ministry Blog.